Disadvantages of living near a river

Flooding. Flooding is the greatest risk for riverfront property owners. ...

Erosion and Avulsion. ...

Trespassers and Noise. ...

Environmental Concerns.

Trespassers  and NoiseRivers can be active recreational areas. Because of this, riverfront properties are plagued by a great deal of activity and noise coming from people using motorized watercraft, yelling and listening to loud music. At the same time, the river brings people through who might choose to stop and trespass on your land for their own purposes. This can be especially problematic for riverfront owners who own nearby beach property.

Environmental Concerns Since the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, different rivers have fallen under legal protection and have been cleaned up. At the same time, though, certain rivers remains polluted by both point-source polluters, such as sewage systems and factories, and by non-point-source pollution, such as the combined effects of farm runoff and urban storm drains.

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the industrial development of cities in the ruhr area in the nineteenth century is described. the research was based on english and german language sources. several factors that shaped growth and paths of the cities were categorized and analyzed. they are locations, resources, traditions, entrepreneurs, and technological developments. locations and resources were the most important among them; other factors may be regarded as consequences from locations and resources. among the cities, bochum, essen, gelsenkirchen, and dortmund had the richest resources and most favorable locations in the transportation network and grew to be the largest cities in the ruhr area near the end of the nineteenth century. riverside location was also a favorable factor for the development, as shown in the development of duisburg on the confluence of rhine and ruhr. resource distribution can explain the rise of textile industry, metallurgical industry, and coal and iron industries, and the northward progression of the mining industry. tradition was an important factor for cities such as krefeld, barmen, elberfeld, solingen, and remscheid, which experienced development based on their traditions through the nineteenth century. various entrepreneurs exerted influences within and beyond the local level over the ruhr area. technological development stimulated the northward progression of the mining industry and the deep connection between the coal and the iron industries.